Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

Back in the day (a few years ago) there was a UK tech mailing list. Sadly it became disused. Things were also posted on the WMUK wiki - again, sadly, those pages are now disused. They were nice while they lasted. Thanks, Mike > On 17 Jan 2017, at 13:34, Fæ wrote: > > I'm

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

> > On 17 January 2017 at 20:11 Gordon Joly wrote: > > > > > Funny how my question about open source alternatives was not answered in > Slack, but has prompted several responses in this email list > > Ha-ha or peculiar? The old chestnut that WMUK

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

Funny how my question about open source alternatives was not answered in Slack, but has prompted several responses in this email list Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

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Thanks. On 17 Jan 2017 15:50, "John Lubbock" wrote: > I never said they 'had to be' on a closed forum. I presented the idea a > while ago, didn't get much feedback from anyone, and had already started > using Slack in the office, so I just created another channel.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

I never said they 'had to be' on a closed forum. I presented the idea a while ago, didn't get much feedback from anyone, and had already started using Slack in the office, so I just created another channel. If you would like to create a different channel for developers and have a separate lot of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

I'm still trying to understand why UK-based Wikimedia developer discussions have to be on a closed forum. As an example, with global discussions around issues or changes on Phabricator, a key benefit is that it is easy to link to these discussions and information on-wiki so that anyone can review

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The other thing is that we have already started using Slack in the office for chat, and I have another slack channel for the Kurdish Wikipedia Project, so I've already gone down this path a bit of a way and to back out and start again because something else is open source would be quite disruptive

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I'm not planning to join because I don't code (though I'm happy to join a channel if you get to a stage where end user or design process feedback is useful) but I would note that asking people to adopt new platforms 'just because they are open source', rather than ones that are used by a lot of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

On 17/01/17 00:38, John Lubbock wrote: > It costs a lot of money, as far as I can see (it says Try for Free and > then takes you to a page where it asks you to pay $100 a month). We wrote Discourse, and we can host it for you, too. Yes, that is a hosting option. You can download and

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

There are a couple of open source alternatives popping up besides irc, one of them rocket.chat. Rupert On Jan 16, 2017 6:29 PM, "John Lubbock" wrote: > I actually tried to encourage people through here to use IRC a number of > months ago but didn't detect much

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

It costs a lot of money, as far as I can see (it says Try for Free and then takes you to a page where it asks you to pay $100 a month). Personally I don't think we need to stretch over backwards to always use an open source option for just communications tools. We don't refuse to use Facebook or

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How about Discourse? http://www.discourse.org/ "Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet." Here is the code: https://github.com/discourse/discourse Gordo On 16/01/17 17:18, Edward Saperia wrote: > The closest equivalent is IRC, I

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

The closest equivalent is IRC, I guess. However, it's a barrier to entry. See also http://xkcd.com/1782/ *Edward Saperia* Founder Newspeak House email • facebook • twitter •

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

Is there an open source version of slack? On 16 January 2017 at 15:59, Gordon Joly wrote: > > >>Why are we not on an Open Source platform?<< > > http://wikidevsuk.slack.com > > I did ask this question a while back on SLACK > > Is there a good answer? > > Gordo > > >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

>>Why are we not on an Open Source platform?<< http://wikidevsuk.slack.com I did ask this question a while back on SLACK Is there a good answer? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

Thanks Pat, I've invited you to the Slack discussion. When we have enough people interested, I'm also looking for someone to take the lead on organising a Wikimedia hackathon, to get people together to work on tools. Please join the slack and we can discuss plans further. If anyone else would like

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Hi John, I'm up for it! p...@pathadley.net Cheers, P On 13 January 2017 at 12:06, John Lubbock wrote: > I'm lurking on it, but we need more people to join to make it useful. I > think there's a critical mass of people it needs so that someone is on > there all

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I'm lurking on it, but we need more people to join to make it useful. I think there's a critical mass of people it needs so that someone is on there all the time. I'm specifically looking for javascript developers at the moment to help Magnus Manske with a project, so if anyone else wants to join

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

On 14/11/16 13:42, John Lubbock wrote: > If you would like to be added to the channel to discuss with other > Wikimedia developers how to take the idea forward and share what you > might already be working on, please reply with your interest and let me > know your email address so I can send you

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On 14/11/16 18:51, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 14/11/16 13:42, John Lubbock wrote: >> please reply with your interest and let me know your email address so I >> can send you an invite to the channel, wikidevsuk.slack.com >> . >> > > > How do I sign up (sign in)? > >